City of Bridgeton is ready to foreclose on 18 properties for non-payment of taxes.

Two of them together are $56,000, over 1.5 cents on the tax rate.

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What is the new way to deal with people who get fined in municipal court and go on the monthly payment plan, and don’t pay up?

It cost money to arrest them in the first place, and it will cost money to arrest them again, and it will cost even more for incarceration, which will guarantee they won’t have money to pay their fines.